198 THE BOTANY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 



smaller flowers with a pubescent calyx, and shorter 

 corolla tube. Shrubby forms do occur in the Malay 

 Peninsula also and forms with a quite glabrous calyx. 

 Distribution Malay Peninsula and Islands, Hongkong 

 and North Australia. 



Guettarda speciosa, L. 



A big tree with large sweet scented white flowers, 

 and a green drupe. 



Common on the sea coast, Smith Point, Cemetery 

 road, Waterfall, and in the plateau on the Murray hill 

 track, but most frequent near the sea, rarely inland. 



The flowers seemed to me to be larger than usual. 

 The fruit is commonly seen in sea drift, and I found 

 several in the sea, but all had sunk. 



Distribution Tropics generally. 

 Morinda citrifolia, Liun. 



A large shrub with dark green leaves, and white 

 flowers. Fruit a syncarp about an inch long. Baker 

 fil. (Monograph of Christmas Island), says that the 

 Christmas Island form seems somewhat different from 

 the usual form in its narrower leaves and, occasionally, 

 tetramerous flowers. It is however quite the ordinary 

 plant of the Malay islands, the form with well developed 

 whitish bracts and is identical with the common sea 

 coast plant of Singapore. 



It is common in Flying Fish Cove and at the Water- 

 fall. 



The fruits are sea dispersed and the plant is most 

 commonly met with on rocky places above the sea. 

 The white flowers are visited and fertilized by the wasps. 

 Odynerus polyphemus Polistes holder Kirb and by the 

 hawk moths Geplieonodes hylds and Macroglossa, and 

 the bee Megachile rotundipennis Kirb. 



Jour. Straits (Branch 



